Chemist and MIT instructor Ellen Swallow Richards is credited as the founder of U.S. home economics. An advocate for furthering women’s education in science, Richards created home economics to ...

About a quarter of secondary school students take the elective class nationally, according to a 2004 study. Some think the course, now called Family and Consumer Sciences outside California ...

Once known as domestic education that raised images of young women learning how to be housewives, home economics of today serves more than 160,000 students across the state in programs that focus on ...

Although there has been a resurgence of interest in life skills and domestic housework education particularly among college students, home economics remains dwarfed by language arts, math, science ...

It taught me about a variety of life skills. My own home-economics education led me to teaching, to family and child development, to running a preschool and owning two businesses.

The home economics course can also include how to raise a child, cooking lessons for different nutritious dishes and so on and so forth. In a way, home economics is the guide to becoming an adult. One ...

DIRECTOR of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information’s Western Regional Office Dr Michelle Pinnock says home economics education continues to be an important subject area that plays a ...

One effect of the current bleak economic climate has been an increasing stress on the importance of teaching the fundamentals of finance to K-12 students. But the financial literacy education we have ...

Once a staple for many students, home economics has fallen victim to changing times and tight school budgets. Helen Zoe Veit argues that home economics offers more than bland food and sewing ...

Recent calls for reinstituting mandatory home economics education have emphasized its potential to advance gender egalitarian aims. The thought is that, because women's disproportionate performance of ...